Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness.

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Life on Earth might be a lot less unusual than we thought, according to a new study. For decades, researchers have believed in the “hard steps” theory of life, which suggests that we needed to go ...

What *is* this thing? It's one of biology's greatest mysteries. The post Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form ...

Scientists discovered a new form of life that stands 26 feet tall in what's been described as a huge breakthrough.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Section of a marble sample from Namibia showing the hole-like structures likely made by an unknown life form. In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, researchers discovered tube-like ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...